How to force your employees to resign instead of terminating them?

Photo Source: Unknown

Organizations play an important role in the development of society, country, and individual. But, sometimes they can be your worst nightmare!!

Employees are hired and fired, but there are some employees which cannot be terminated easily because of their proven success record or process of terminating them is too complex to initiate e.g. In India, Judge of Supreme Court or High Court can be removed only by getting Special Majority in both the Houses. The process is too complex to remove them. The only way to remove them is to make them resign willingly. (I don’t want to offend Judges. I only used this example to make my point clear.)

In some cases, employees are needed to be ‘coerced’ or persuaded to give their resignation instead of terminating them.

Below are the 5 common tactics which are used to manage employees out of the organization: -

1.   Micromanaging: - Micromanaging means when your supervisor would try to control and manage each part of your job. He or She would send mails that employee didn’t do this or that work; he or she didn’t follow timeline, he or she is disorganized, he or she is not goal oriented, etc. They would start interfering in every aspect of their employee’s career. This can really piss-off employees. Good managers don’t do it, Bad managers always do it.

2.   Unrealistic Goals: - Supervisor would start giving unrealistic goals to his or her employee so that they could never be able to achieve them. When employees would fail, they would criticize them and embarrass them in-front of others. Humiliation has power to break people. Failures can demotivate anyone and constant failures would keep you demotivated forever. When goals are not S.M.A.R.T. i.e. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time bound then no one in the world can achieve them (unless you are Rajnikant or GOD itself)

3.  Make Job Dull: - Challenges and responsibilities make our job exciting. Remove challenges and responsibilities and our job becomes boring and dull. When nothing lefts to do, we immediately feel like leaving the job and going away. People don’t work just to earn money and pay bills. People work because they want to be something and do something in life. A dull job is only done by the people who have no purpose in life. An intelligent person can never continue with a dull and boring job.

4.   Boycott: - Supervisor would stop calling employee in the important occasions like Annual Meeting, Conferences, and Special Marketing Events. Employee would felt being neglected, avoided, and unappreciated. These feelings demotivate people and affect their productivity. Supervisor would send you on an “Important Project.” The purpose of these important projects is to cut employee from the office crowd and make him or her feel lonely. No one would report to employee. He or she would have to work alone and when task would not get completed then due to poor-performance resignation of the employee would be taken.

5.  On-the Job Discrimination: - Supervisor would call employee, its colleagues, and juniors. In the meeting, friends of the targeted employee and its team members would be praised and appreciated. Supervisor would act friendly towards them and rudely towards the targeted employee.

Now, what being an employee one should do to reverse the situation? LEAVE your JOB immediately. No need to explain yourself to others. A good supervisor would always tell you the real reason and would help you to grow yourself. If people don’t want you, leave them and move forward in life.